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John Welchman: Art Studio Program Lecture Series at UC Davies - Nov 9 '09 - 4:30PM

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:36:04 -0800

Art Studio Program Lecture Series

Actions Against the State:
Paul McCarthy’s Pirate Project

November 9, 2009, 4:30PM

UC Davis, Technocultural Studies Bldg., 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8528

Departing from a close reading of Paul McCarthy’s recent Pirate Project, part of his major 2005 exhibition La La Land and Parody Paradise (Haus der Kunst, Munich and Whitechapel, London), John Welchman discusses some of the wider social, political and esthetic questions raised by McCarthy’s work in performance, mega-installation, drawing and video. With video clips from Pirate Project.

John Welchman co-authors the John Baldessari: Pure Beauty Catalogue

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:21:38 -0700

JOHN BALDESSARI: PURE BEAUTY

The JOHN BALDESSARI: PURE BEAUTY Catalogue is Co-Authored by, UC San Diego Visual Arts Professor, John Welchman.

Welchman was also co-author of the catalogs for John Baldessari:
BRICK BLDG, LG WINDOWS W/XLENT VIEWS, PARTIALLY FURNISHED, RENOWNED ARCHITECT,
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, March 1 to July 19, 2009;
and John Baldessari: Music, ed. Stefan Gronert and Christina Végh, Kunstmuseum Bonn and Bonner Kunstverein (Walter König, 2007).

This is a travelling show, for details please click on "read more" below.

Interactiva 09: The Electronic Disturbance Theatre, Particle Group, and Eduardo Navas - May 28-Jun 30 '09 - Yucatan, Mexico

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:02:11 -0700

Interactiva 09
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The Transborder Immigrant Tool (2008)
The Electronic Disturbance Theatre
( Ricardo Domínguez + Brett Stalbaum + Micha Cárdenas + Jason Najarro )

Eduardo Navas

Particle Group
( Ricardo Domínguez + Diane Ludin + Nina Waisman + Amy Sara Carroll )

May 28 until the end of June 2009

Museo de la Ciuda Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico

Interactiva 09 presents the interactivity of art works and the public via Internet and other technologies.

Review in North County Times Features Manny Farber, Jean Lowe, and Kim MacConnel

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:27:48 -0700

Quint exhibit looks at past, present, future of local contemporary art scene
http://www.nctimes.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/visual/article_8db7861e-20e9-5095-bf0e-abb88d115cc4.html

PATRICIA MORRIS BUCKLEY - For the North County Times | Posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 7:30 am

"Earth, Fire, Air, Water," a 1984 painting by Manny Farber, one of the works featured in "Quint: Three Decades of Contemporary Art" opening at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum.

Teddy Cruz Featured in The Faster Times

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:52:42 -0700

The Faster Times

Green Economy

Water Rules Over Development Hopes
http://thefastertimes.com/greeneconomy/2009/07/31/water-rules-over-development-hopes/

By Alec Appelbaum July 31, 2009

A presentation by a radical architect to an elite Manhattan crowd last night highlighted a ferocious business problem. There’s not enough water for California and Mexico (or many other pairs of over- and under-fed economies) to share.

MIT TechTV-Azra Aksamija with Kyong Park: Lost Highway Expedition

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:37:43 -0700

Center Affiliate Azra Aksamija speaks about the Lost Highway Expedition with Kyong Park. Lost Highway Expedition will begin in Ljubljana, and travel through Zagreb, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Skopje, Pristina, Tirana, Podgorica to conclude in Sarajevo, comprised of two days of events at each city and one day of travel in between. The events may include guided tours, presentations and forums by local experts, workshops between the participating travelers and local participants, discussions, exhibitions, radio shows, picnics and other events that can be self-produced by the host cities. Members of the Lost Highway Expedition do not have to travel or stay together and can enter and exit the expedition for any length of time and at any point. Participants are to self organize, support and realize their journey in the “Highway of Post Brotherhood and Non Unity.” + Azra Aksamija is an artist and architect based in Cambridge, USA. She became a graduate affiliate of The Center for Advanced Visual Studies in the fall of 2005. In fall 2004 she began her PhD candidacy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture / Department for History Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture. Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1976, she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University Graz, Austria in 2001, and received her M.Arch from Princeton University, USA in 2004. Her work has been widely published and exhibited in venues such as the Generali Foundation Vienna (2002), Biennial de Valencia (2003), Berlin Art Fair (2003), Graz Biennial of Media and Architecture (2003), Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig (2003), and Liverpool Biennial (2004). She is currently researching her dissertation on contemporary Islamic architecture in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina and the place of Islam in Western Europe and the United States. Architect Kyong Park is the founder/director of International Center for Urban Ecology, a nomadic laboratory for future cities, based in Detroit and New York. He was also the founder of Storefront for Art and Architecture, an experimental forum and exhibition space in New York.

Teddy Cruz Featured in "Into the Open"

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:52:53 -0700

'Into the Open' features work of 16 architectural groups
http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/towns/index.ssf/2009/07/into_the_open_features_work_of.html

by John Barna, The Gloucester County Times
Friday July 24, 2009, 1:26 PM

Abe Lincoln, nearly 150 years ago, pushed for a country "of the people, by the people, for the people."

In 2009, the superintendent of Independence National Historic Park, Cynthia McLeod, suggested those words can quickly transform into "community empowerment and civil engagement."

John C. Welchman Lecture: ''Actions Against the State: Paul McCarthy's Pirate Project'' - NICC - Jun 29 '09 - Belgium

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:14:31 -0700

John C. Welchman

Lecture

A Paul McCarthy's Pirate Project

Actions Against the State

June 29, 2009 at 8:00 pm

NICC, Tulpstraat 79, 2060 Antwerpen, Belgium

Departing from a close reading of McCarthy's Pirate Project, LaLa Land and Parody Paradise (Haus der Kunst, Munich and Whitechapel, London), John C. Welchman discusses some of the wider social, political and esthetic questions raised by his work in performance, mega-installation, drawing and video. McCarthy engages with multiple declensions of the piratic including the inheritance of Anglo-European pirate lore, a densely associative redistribution of the pirate persona and the slapstick reconstitution of sea-bandit Americana.

For more information on the lecture, please visit the NICC website at: http://www.nicc.be/

Amy Adler: Film Screening of "Ready for Love" Jul 11 and 18 '09

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:07:29 -0700

"Ready For Love"
Directed by Amy Adler

Screenings

July 11th, 2009 at 7:15pm at Outfest
FAIRFAX 1
7907 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California

July 18th, 2009 at 1:00pm at REDCAT
631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, California

For more information on the film, please visit: http://www.readyforlovemovie.com/

Using Mobile Phone Technology to Transcend Borders, Dimensions

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:54:17 -0700

Using Mobile Phone Technology to Transcend Borders, Dimensions
http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/rss.php?id=1546

San Diego, CA, June 4, 2009 — As they become more and more ubiquitous, mobile phones have made it possible to communicate with virtually anyone on the planet at any time. But one researcher at the University of California, San Diego, is taking the technology even further by using cell phones to prompt communication in unlikely places: The microscopic arena of nanotechnology; restricted border regions between nations; and even the realm of the paranormal. Calit2 Principal Investigator Ricardo Dominguez will spend all summer in Spain engaging in a series of projects that will extend the scope of his sometimes controversial research.

Haim Steinbach: OBJECT

Fri, 22 May 2009 15:56:20 -0700

OBJECT

Concept and Design: Haim Steinbach
Published Spring 2009
Format: 27 x 29.5 x 4 cm. - 10.6 x 11.6 x 1.6 inches.
64 pages, offset on board, with hole punch
Printed slipcase
First edition of 800 copies
Photography and Production: Christophe Boutin
Editor: Cornelia Lauf
Publisher: Mélanie Scarciglia

«OBJECT,» by Haim Steinbach, the latest publication by Three Star Books. «OBJECT» is a board book that almost forms a sandwich–with a hole punched in the middle. Each page reproduces one object selected by Steinbach, and photographed head-on, as a portrait. The sixty-one images in this two-kilogram book constitute one of the most moving and autobiographical accounts of the personal journey of Steinbach. A picture book, a dictionary, a self-portrait, and a lesson in art-making.

For more information, please visit:
www.threestarbooks.com

UCSD Professor John Welchman Featured in Frieze Magazine

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:21:01 -0700

Dysfunctional Museums
http://www.frieze.com/blog/entry/dysfunctional_museums
By Sam Thorne

Held at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome over the weekend, ‘Functions of the Museum’ was the first in a series of symposia considering exhibitions and audiences in the run-up to the opening of the city’s first contemporary art institution. The Zaha Hadid-designed MAXXI Museum (or the National Museum of XXI Century Art), which will host both an art and an architecture institution, has been in the pipeline since 1998 and is due to open – after what sounds like a fraught gestation period – by early next year. The attitude of many of the speakers to the project was ambivalent. Some wondered whether the symposium would prompt real change in MAXXI’s programme, while the first speaker, historian and critic John Welchman, was most succinct, at one point showing a Monica Bonvicini cartoon of Hadid ordering a naked lackey to ‘cut you dick out and eat it’ alongside construction shots of the museum.

Professor Lev Manovich Featured in the Khaleej Times

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:19:01 -0700

Cultural Analytics: A New Field That Combines Arts, Media And IT

April, 17 2009

THE impact of the digital revolution is unmistakable. Emails have replaced letters and memos; IP telephony and instant messaging have replaced telephone calls; audio and video content are now “broadcast” online on channels like YouTube, and friendships are maintained and built over social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook.

With many of life’s tasks now taking place within the digital realm, a complex amalgamate of our thoughts, emotions, connections, photographs and other personal details are captured  in cyberspace.

Celebrate the Launch of 'Version' Online Arts Journal

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:33:25 -0700

Version Launch Party

April 2, 2009 | 5-7PM

UC San Diego / gallery@Calit2, Atkinson Hall

Version, a new online journal based at the University of California, San Diego, is experimenting with Web 2.0 sensibilities to explore the space where art, viral publishing and multitasking collide. The public is invited to celebrate the launch of 'Version' at a reception from Thursday, April 2, at the gallery@Calit2, located in Atkinson Hall on the UCSD campus. The reception will include a presentation on the history and development of Version.

Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:36:01 -0700

Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold received a commission to design 52 mosaics for the Civic Center Metro Subway Station in Los Angeles, California. Mosaika, the fabulous company in Montreal is fabricating the designs. Here are photos of Faith's recent visit to check on the progress of the mosaic panels.

For details, please click on "read more" below.